Texaco

Texaco, formerly the Texas Company, is an American oil subsidiary of Chevron. The company was founded in Beaumont, Texas in 1901 after oil was discovered at Spindletop, and it would become one of the "Seven Sisters" that dominated the world oil industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s. In 2001, it became a subsidiary of Chevron, and it had over 2,000 locations as of 2006.